Risk Of Contamination When Flooding Damages Your Lehi Home

8/2/2018 (Permalink)

Flooding in a basement or the lowest level of your home can expose you and your family to hazardous substances.

Flood Damage To Your Home

Whether your Lehi home suffers damage from a sewage backup or overland flooding, dealing with quantities of water in your lower levels presents issues beyond the abilities of most homeowners to manage without professional help. Flooding in a basement or the lowest level of your home can expose you and your family to hazardous substances. Our trained and experienced technicians have the certifications and skills to remediate the circumstances.

Municipal water supply and drainage systems connected to your Lehi home can cause flooding when pipes break or sewers clog. Extreme weather patterns nearby and at higher elevations can send flash flooding across roadways and the grounds surrounding your house. Attempts to remediate this influx of water with non-commercial consumer tools like shop vacs, mops and buckets risks contact with harmful and sometimes lethal substances without proper personal protective equipment. Licensed instructors must teach protocols designed by the EPA, OSHA, and local health authorities to keep people safe and sanitize structures and belongings and employed by professionals.

SERVPRO trains our crews to restoration industry standards established by the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC). When we arrive to assess your flooded home, our crew chiefs determined the category of water involved, from clean to slightly tainted (gray), or severely contaminated (black).

Gray water contains dirt or chemicals that must be removed from structures and contents prior to drying. They can irritate susceptible individuals or accelerate deterioration of property. Black water is the norm when your home suffers a sewer back up. Human and animal waste enters your property, accessible and threatening to soil personal possessions and building materials. Blood and waste-borne pathogens cause illness and possibly death. SERVPRO crew members are familiar with local codes pertaining to the need to contain contaminated water and the proper and legal methods to dispose of it.

SERVPRO employees use pumps and high-efficiency water extractors to remove the flood water, and then treat the affected areas with EPA-registered antimicrobials to inhibit the lingering effects of any contaminants. We then dry the flooded spaces completely, necessary to restore the integrity of your home’s structure and prevent possible secondary damage such as mold growth.

When water floods your home, SERVPRO of North Utah County has the trained technicians and specialized equipment to transform the destructions back to preloss condition. Call us at (801) 785-5228 to set up an assessment and plan to make it "Like it never even happened.”

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